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Event Date: March 30, 2017 Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater Time: 7pm This event brings together African musicians and historians with SMU students and faculty. This public event of interspaced conversation and song will involve two Zimbabweans who have put mbira music on the world stage, Dr. Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited Band and Professor […]
Event date: Friday, February 10, 2017, Time: 12:00-2:30 pm Location: Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Hall, Perkins School of Theology Jesus and his first followers were Jews, grounded in Jewish Scripture, Jewish ethics, Jewish theology, and Jewish hopes. Professor Levine’s work has shown that to ignore this Jewish context is to misunderstand Jesus—and, too often, to reinforce […]
Monday, Jan. 23, 5:00-6:15 pm, McCord Auditorium of Dallas Hall, SMU campusCo-sponsored with the Medieval Studies Program Prof. Maya Soifer Irish, Rice University, lecture “Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile: Tradition, Coexistence, and Change” Thursday, Jan. 26, 7:30 pm, Stern Chapel at Temple Emanu-El, 8500 Hillcrest Ave, Dallas, TX 75225Co-sponsored with the Rabbi Levi A. […]
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Join “A Gathering For Dignity” Friday (11/11) 1 p.m. at the Flagpole
Event date: Monday, November 14, 2016 Location: Perkins Chapel Time:7:30 pm Join Jewish-American songwriter Michael Hunter Ochs and award-winning Muslim-Palestinian peace activist/songwriter Alaa Alshaham for an intimate performance of music and conversation.These two improbable friends will retrace their steps between Israel and Palestine – eventually finding themselves performing together at the United Nations. Their personal […]
Event date: Wednesday, October 26 Location: Heroy Hall 153 Time: Noon-12:55 pm Tina Wasserman, author of the acclaimed cookbook “Entree to Judaism A Culinary Exploration of the Jewish Diaspora,” is a renown cooking instructor living in Dallas. Wasserman was elected in 1994 to Les Dames d’Escoffier, an International Culinary Society. She will discuss the history […]
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Calendar Highlights: Back to school in brief, Fall 2016
Posted on August 19, 2016 by Kathleen Tibbetts Welcome to the 2016-17 academic year! Here are a few Fall 2016 dates to remember: Opening Convocation and Common Reading discussion: Sunday, Aug. 21 First day of classes: Monday, Aug. 22 General Faculty Meeting: Wednesday, Aug. 24 Labor Day: Monday, Sept. 5 (University offices closed) First Faculty Senate Meeting of 2016-17: Wednesday, Sept. 7 Family Weekend: Friday-Saturday, Sept. 23-24 Fall Break: Monday-Tuesday, […]
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Texas Jewish Post Originally Posted: May 26, 2016